Piranha 3DD 2012

Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: The director, John Gulager, has no idea how to mix his ingredients to create a savvy self-parody. Read more

Tasha Robinson, AV Club: Gulager ... mostly seems to be trying to see how much he can degrade the old Jaws formula and still have it interpreted as parody rather than apathy. Read more

Kyle Anderson, Entertainment Weekly: The first half of the film merely treads water in anticipation for the eventual bloodbath, and once the teeth start gnawing, it's just one laborious machination after another to get to the end of the movie, which stops without much of a resolution. Read more

Eric D. Snider, Film.com: It's not outrageous enough to warrant a you-gotta-see-this-to-believe-it screening, and the gore is nothing that gore fans haven't seen a hundred times before. Read more

Justin Lowe, Hollywood Reporter: With most of the running time devoted to setting up and over-explaining the premise, mayhem gets short shrift. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Tacky and intermittently entertaining is all"Piranha 3DD"sets out to be, and that is all this playfully graphic horror-comedy sequel accomplishes. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Like so much adolescent, made-for-guys comedy-horror, Piranha 3DD is so weirdly uptight about women you figure exhibitors should hand out teen health guides as well as 3-D glasses. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: The outrageousness feels calculated and even desperate, with a final ten minutes packed with beheadings in the hopes that audiences will forget how lackluster the previous 73 minutes were. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: Even the gore is sporadic, poorly staged and unimaginative: as a result, this is neither fish nor foul. Read more

Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: As one character notes, "there's something in the water" all right, and apparently it's making movies (and audiences) progressively more stupid. Read more

Leslie Felperin, Variety: Ups the self-parody so much that it's practically a Wayans Brothers spoof, albeit with fewer jokes. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: The labored spirit of dirty-old-man humor ... prevails. Read more